PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12198, 24 July 1925, Page 4

PERSONALIA

Mr Rud Petersen, of Auckland, has arrived in Wellington.

Sir Joseph Ward has returned to Wellington from a visit to Southland. A Press message from Nelson reporta the death of Bishop Mules, agqd 33 years.

S'ir Heaton Rhodes (Minister for Defence) returned to Wellington yesterday, accompanied by Lady Rhodes. Mr F. C. Ayßon was admitted a solicitor of the Supreme Court yesterday by His Honour the Chief Justice, on application of Mr E. R. Bunny.

Messrs H. W. Urn and J. J. Mo* Combs, M.P.’s, were passengers by the Mararoa* from Lyttelton yesterday.

The Conciliation Commissioner (Mr W. Newton) left for Nelson last evening to preside at council sittings in the private hotel workers’ dispute and the restaurant and tearooms workers’ dispute.

Mr Alexander Edward Cooper, of the State Advances Department, has been admitted by His Honour the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) as a solicitor of the Supreme Court, on the motion of Mr J. B. Christie. At the meeting of the Wellington Hospital Board yesterday, Mr C. M Luke, chairman, referred to the loss the board had sustained by the deaths of Dr. Hamilton Robertson and Dr. AVebster both of whom had 1 been on Ihe honorary staff of the hospital. They were men of high attainments and sympathy. He moved that the hoard place on record its appreciation of their services, Dr. Robertson as hon. surgeon to the children’s hospital since April, 1922, and Dr. Webster*as hon. opthalmic surgeon since April, 1910, and that letters of sympathy be vsent to their relatives. Mr F. Castie Seconded, and the motion was carried in silence. His Exoellency tie Governor-General he s approved of the award of the Colo nial Auxiliary Forces officers’ decora* tion to: Major P. de B. Brandon, 0.8. E., reserve of officers; Captain H. W. Martyn-Roberts, Hawke’s Bay Re. giment; and" Lieutenant P. J. 8. George, Hawke’s Bay Regiment; and of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces long • service medal to Lieutenant-Colonel C. E. Butcher, Nelson, Marlborough, and West Coast Regiment; LieutenantColonel N. R. AVflson, D. 5.0., M.C., Canterbury Regiment; Major F. E. Greenish, M.C., Wellington Regiment Captain G. H. Robertson, M. 8., New Zealand Medical Corps; Captain W. S. MoCrorie, Wellington West Coast Regiment ; Lieutenant E. 1 W. Smith, Southern Depot. New Zealand Army Service Corps; Sergeant F. E. Sheridan, Bth New Zealand Mounted Rifles (Nelson). Mr G. H. R. G. Poulton, an old resident of Wellington, died at his residence, Patangs crescent, yesterday morning. The deceased, who was born at Watford, England, arrived in New Zealand when a lad, and settled with his parents at Wellington. Leaving the Wellington Grammar School as a young man, the late Mr Poulton joined the staff of Mr Robert Burrett, one of Wellington’s early art printers. After many years’ service at Mr Burrett’s, Mr Poulton transferred his activities to the old and well-known firm of the ’eighties, Messrs Lyon and Blair, whose business was in later yeare taken over by Messrs Whitcombs and Tombs. Mr Poulton, who for tho last twenty years was connected with the lithographio branch of the Government Printing Office, was of a very genial temperament, and his death wiil be mourned by his confreres and a large circle of friends, whose sympathy goes to the bereaved relatives. The deceased leaves a widow and one son (Mr E. N. G. Poulton, private secretary-to the Hon. R. F. Bollard) and a daughter (Miss Ivy Poulton, of tho accountants’ branch of the Post and Telegraph Department). Eleven months ago the late Mr Poulton’s youngest son (Mr R. G. Poulton, Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, and Electoral Officer, Christchurch) died, and last week his eldest daughter (Mrs C. Hodder, of Auckland) succumbed from the effects of an 'operation. The deceased is to be buried this morning, the interment being private. .